Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:55:23 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: maho@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiler discussion Message-ID: <20091113145523.GA66476@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20091113080033.GB90272@freebsd.org> References: <20091112141519.GA66229@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091112153407.GA62396@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20091113080033.GB90272@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:00:33AM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:34:07AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > Last time I checked, Fortran in llvm was based off a very old > > gfortran. The llvm website mentions gcc 4.2.?. While the 4.2.? > > gfortran isn't too bad, you most certainly would rather use gcc44 > > if you can. Literally, hundreds of bugs and several new feature > > have been add to gfortran in going from 4.2.? to gcc 4.4.2. > > you can use dragonegg gcc plugin which uses gcc frontend (for any > language) and uses llvm backed to generate the code: > > http://dragonegg.llvm.org/ OP is interested in ia64. It appears that dragonegg is ia32 and amd64 only. Additionally, dragonegg is a gcc plugin. OP can't get gcc to build, so the plugin would be of no use. However, this does look like an interesting project. -- Steve
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